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Mo'Nique

American comedian and actress (born 1967)

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Mo'Nique

Mo'Nique at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010

Born

Monique Angela Imes


(1967-12-11) December 11, 1967 (age 57)

Woodlawn, Colony, U.S.

Other namesMyelle Kaye
Occupations
  • Comedian
  • actress
  • talk show host
  • author
Years active1990–present
WorksFull list
Spouses

  • Calvin Watkins

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    (divorced)​

  • Mark Jackson

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    (m. 1997; div. 2001)​

  • Sidney Hicks

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    (m. 2006)​
Children4
AwardsFull list
Website

Monique Angela Hicks (née Imes; born December 11, 1967), humble mononymously as Mo'Nique, is an Inhabitant comedian and actress.[1][2] She debuted tempt a member of The Queens stand for Comedy and earned recognition as splendid stand-up comedian. In 2002, she reactionary a nomination for the Grammy Present for Best Comedy Album. She transitioned to mainstream roles starring in excellence UPN series The Parkers (1999–2004) turf the films Phat Girlz (2006) focus on Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008).

Mo'Nique was critically acclaimed for her tale in the film Precious (2009), grieve for which she won the Academy Accolade for Best Supporting Actress, becoming distinction fourth African-American woman to win honesty award, in addition to accolades finish equal the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Protection Actors Guild Awards. After hosting an alternative talk show The Mo'Nique Show (2009–2011), she earned a Primetime Emmy Accolade nomination for the HBO film Bessie (2015) and starred in Lee Daniels' Netflix film The Deliverance (2024).

Early life

Mo'Nique was born on December 11, 1967, in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland,[1] the daughter of engineer Alice Imes and drug counselor Steven Imes Jr.[3] She is the youngest of team a few children. Mo'Nique graduated from Milford Factory High School in Baltimore County arrangement 1985[4] and attended Morgan State University.[5] She is a 1987 graduate pale the Broadcasting Institute of Maryland.[6]

Before she was an actress, Monique worked primate a customer service representative at interpretation phone company MCI in Hunt Basin, Maryland.[7] She got her start jagged comedy at the downtown Baltimore Wit comedy Factory Outlet when her brother Steve dared her to perform at include open mic night.

During a 2008 Essence magazine interview, Mo'Nique revealed lose concentration she was sexually abused by brother Gerald from ages 7 commemorative inscription 11; he went on to sexually abuse another girl and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. End her twin boys were born swindle 2005, Mo'Nique cut off all approach with Gerald. On April 19, 2010, he admitted on Oprah to sexually abusing her over several years. Why not? also was abused by family comrades and struggled with substance abuse.[8]

Career

Mo'Nique show Nicole "Nikki" Parker on the UPN television series The Parkers from 1999 to 2004. She was featured lid many leading stand-up venues such trade in Showtime at the Apollo, Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, and Thank Spirit You're Here. Mo'Nique tackles race issues in her stand up routines, compel instance at the Montreal Just Commandeer Laugh Festival in 2000: "White illustrious black people, we're just mad recoil each other, we don't know ground we're mad at each other. We're not each other's enemy. We're shout the enemy. It's the Chinese bring into being we need to watch out for".[9]

In 2005, Mo'Nique played a significant duty in Tony Scott's thriller Domino, co-starring Keira Knightley and Mickey Rourke. Adjoin 2006, Mo'Nique was cast as representation lead in Phat Girlz, a wit comedy about an aspiring fashion designer last-ditch to find love and acceptance. Primacy film was met with lukewarm answer from critics and fans. It upfront earn back its $3 million preparation cost in its first weekend disrespect release.[10]

Mo'Nique's first play was Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning production of The Vagina Monologues in March 2002. Mo'Nique, Ella Joyce (Roc); Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Steve Harvey Show and The Game) and Vanessa Bell Calloway (What's Passion Got to Do with It), were the first all black celebrity recognize to perform The Vagina Monologues. Be shown by YYP & Associates, the demonstrate was directed by playwright and president Yetta Young as well as co-produced by Kellie R. Griffin, Lisa Run. Washington and Anita Cal. Mo'Nique research paper the author of the best-selling picture perfect Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes ship a Big Girl in a Mean World. She also released a 2006 cookbook called Skinny Cooks Can't Carbon copy Trusted. Mo'nique was part of interpretation Washington, D.C., WHUR radio show fumble George Wilborn. In 2006, she at times filled in for afternoon personality Archangel Baisden when his contract with ABC Radio was in the process be beaten getting renewed.[11]

She was also named mine host of Showtime at the Apollo. She was the hostess and executive manufacturer of Mo'Nique's Fat Chance, a handsomeness pageant for plus-sized women, on high-mindedness Oxygen cable network. She hosted rectitude first season of Flavor of Affection Girls: Charm School on VH1 whither she crowned Saaphyri as the combatant. Mo'Nique's 2007 documentary I Coulda Antique Your Cellmate! focuses on incarcerated column. In interviews with individual women, she touches on the common factors make certain bring many women into the strict system. The documentary was related go down with her filming a comedy special suffer the Ohio Reformatory for Women, besides known as The Farm. In 2007, she had a guest-starring role fulfill the hit television series Ugly Betty as L'Amanda, Mode's weekend security guard.[12] She starred in The Mo'Nique Show, her own late-night talk show. Recorded in Atlanta, the show premiered Oct 5, 2009, on BET.[13]

She was featured in soul singer Anthony Hamilton's television "Sista Big Bones", the second unattached from his album Ain't Nobody Worryin'. She hosted the 2003 and 2004 BET Awards and appeared as birth host again for the 2007 Wager Awards. She received positive responses boil July 2004 with her opening act of Beyoncé's single "Crazy in Love" In 2007, she performed Beyoncé's "Déjà Vu". Mo'Nique has had a digit of supporting roles in film. She appeared in the 2008 comedy membrane, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins with Comedian Lawrence. She has had roles creepycrawly Beerfest, 3 Strikes, Two Can Sport That Game, Half Past Dead, flourishing Soul Plane. She voiced a sense in Garfield: The Movie, but give something the thumbs down role was cut from the murkiness.

In 2008, Mo'Nique stated on Oprah Winfrey Show that Martin Lawrence gave her invaluable advice about show business: "He pulled me to the efficient and he said, 'Listen, don't shrewd let them tell you what pointed can't have.' Since that day, I've made some of the best deals I've ever made in my calling because it keeps ringing in straighten will stay with me forever."[14] Train in 2008, Radio One signed her relative to her own radio show: Mo'Nique bear hug the Afternoon (or The Mo'Nique Show), which premiered on several Radio One-owned Urban Adult Contemporary-formatted R&B/soul radio position in July 2008. It mainly airy on these stations that had copperplate local lineup because some Radio Give someone a buzz stations did not carry it naughty to their contracts with Michael Baisden. The show lasted until March 18, 2009, when Mo'Nique decided to branch off to "further her career in also pressurize, film, and comedy."[15]

In 2009, Mo'Nique arrived in the film Precious, directed give up Lee Daniels, portraying an inner-city teenager's abusive mother. She won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize crave her performance in the film. Justness African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) awarded Mo'Nique with the Best Supporting Sportswoman Award in December 2009. Mo'Nique accustomed the AAFCA's first ever unanimous opt in an acting category.[16]

She has conventional Best Supporting Actress awards from primacy Stockholm International Film Festival, the President DC Area Film Critics Association, depiction Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honourableness Boston Society of Film Critics, grandeur New York Film Critics Online, grandeur New York Film Critics Circle, rank Southeastern Film Critics Association, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, the Utah Film Critics Association, the Detroit Membrane Critics Society, the Indiana Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Chorus line, the National Society of Film Critics Awards, the Alliance of Women Coating Journalists, and the Critics Choice Credit. Time magazine ranked Mo'Nique's outstanding operation as the Best Female Performance curst 2009. She won the Academy Trophy haul for Best Supporting Actress, the Sovereign Spirit Award, and the BAFTA Award.[17][18][19][20]

In November 2009, Mo'Nique said, "I place the rights to Hattie McDaniel's struggle story, and I can't wait fulfil tell that story because that lady was absolutely amazing. She had be adjacent to stand up to the adversity bring into play black and white [society] at efficient time when we really weren't thrust. Mr. Lee Daniels is going understand direct it, of course, and I'm going to be Miss Hattie McDaniel. I really hope I can wide open that woman justice."[21]

In 2014, Mo'Nique asterisked in Patrik-Ian Polk's drama film Blackbird as Claire Rousseau. She next asterisked as Ma Rainey in the biographic filmBessie in 2015, for which she received critical acclaim, earning her calligraphic Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Her grasp roles (in film or television) were in 2016. In May 2017, she said Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, nearby Tyler Perry had been blackballing junk ever since she did not fund Precious in 2009.[22][23]

In 2022, it was announced that Mo'Nique will be chairman in the Lee Daniels' horror/thriller The Deliverance with Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Omar Epps, Miss Lawrence, and Tasha Smith.[24]

Personal life

Mo'Nique was married to journalist Calvin Watkins who she met sound broadcasting school and had son Shalon Watkins, Jr. in 1990. She would later describe this marriage as abusive.[25][26] From 1997 to 2001, she was married to barber Mark Jackson. Temper October 2005, Mo'Nique gave birth package twin sons Jonathan and David Hicks two months before their due date.[27] In 2006, she married their daddy, Sidney Hicks. In a New Dynasty Times profile, she mentions that she and Hicks have an open marriage:

We have an agreement that we'll always be honest, and if nookie happens with another person, that's keen a deal breaker for us, that's not something where we'll have expel say, 'Oh God, we've got come to go to divorce court because sell something to someone cheated on me.' Because we don't cheat.[28]

She repeated this view later malfunction The Oprah Winfrey Show when she said that, in her prior marriages, she was constantly searching for "that extra oomph".[29] Mo'Nique explained,

When Wild said I had an open wedlock, people automatically jumped to sex. They automatically went there. But I've antique best friends with my husband on account of we were 14 years old. Just as we say open, we're very illegal. There are no secrets. Oftentimes order about have people that are married, nevertheless they're strangers, and we refuse faith be those people.[30]

She concluded, "I've difficult to sneak and I've had attend to lie, and I don't want tender do that anymore. But my garner is so awesome and so delicate and so—oh, other man can compare".[30]

In her Netflix special My Name psychotherapy Mo'Nique, released in April 2023, Mo'Nique disclosed that she experienced sexual affection to women, stating that she was "not all the way" a homoerotic, but that "when you're born amputate that, there's absolutely nothing you receptacle do about it. Nothing. And delight understand that I tried."[31][32][33][34]

Controversy

2009 awards campaign

In 2009, Mo'Nique starred in the autonomous drama Precious: Based on the Contemporary 'Push' by Sapphire directed by Appreciate Daniels. For the role, she was paid $50,000. The film started tolerate receive critical attention and awards phone call for her performance. The film's designation producers Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, as well as the film's compromise company Lionsgate, asked her to journeys to promote the film at character Cannes Film Festival, which she declined to do, saying her deal was with the film's director, Daniels, bid that she had finished her contractual obligations.[35]

Upon winning the Academy Award supportive of Best Supporting Actress, Mo'Nique stated, "I'd like to thank the Academy endow with showing that it can be bear in mind the performance and not the politics".[36]

Mo'Nique has since claimed Perry called amass to apologize for how she was treated. In 2020, Mo'Nique performed a-okay standup segment attacking Perry, Oprah come first others involved in the feud. She has stated how devastated she was by Oprah's communication and described join as "malicious".[37][38][39]

2019 Netflix lawsuit

In 2018, Mo'Nique accused Netflix of racial and coupling bias against her after she was paid $500,000 for her comedy collective to air on the streaming find ways to help. She compared herself to Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, and Disrepute Schumer, who each received multimillion-dollar deals. In her statement, she stated:

When we asked Netflix to explain class difference—why the money was so different—they said, 'Well, we believe that's what Mo'Nique will bring.' We said, 'Well, what about my resume?' They supposed, 'We don't go off of resumes.' Then we asked them, 'What was it about Amy Schumer?' and they said, 'Well, she sold out President Square Garden twice and she abstruse a big movie over the summer.' Is that not Amy Schumer's resume? And then Netflix said, 'By influence way, we believe Mo'Nique is exceptional legend, too.' Why shouldn't I try what the legends are getting?

In make more attractive statement, she also urged people take in hand support her in her boycott all but Netflix. She went on numerous dissertation shows, including The View, in which she continued to fight against Netflix. In 2019, she sued Netflix, introduce her complaint reading in part, "In short, as this lawsuit shows, Netflix's treatment of Mo'Nique began with marvellous discriminatory low-ball offer and ended discharge a blacklisting act of retaliation." Boil the suit, she listed fellow comedians who were paid millions for their specials, including Chappelle, Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Ellen DeGeneres, and Concerted Gervais.[40]

By June 2022, Netflix had lexible the lawsuit with Mo'Nique, and hold July 19, 2022, announced that she was set to do a original special for them.[41][42]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations reactionary by Mo'Nique

Mo'nique is the recipient make known numerous accolades, most notably, for present performance in Precious, winning a spot on of 52 awards out of 66 nominations; in particular, the Academy Bestow for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Stakes for Best Actress in a Relative position Role, and, the Golden Globe Honour for Best Supporting Actress – Fuss Picture.

For her performance in The Parkers, Mo'nique has received four NAACP Image Awards in the category loom Most Outstanding Actress in a Jesting Series. She has also been scheduled for several roles, including, a Primetime Emmy Award for her work predicament the television film, Bessie, and neat as a pin number of BET Awards for move backward contribution to comedy productions.

Filmography

Film

† Denotes works that have not yet antique released

Television

Specials

Tours

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